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  • Heraclides should lose his command of the navy; believing him, if otherwise an ill man, at any rate to be more citizenlike than Dion, and readier to comply with the people.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • His entertainments were, for the most part, plain and citizenlike, the company general and popular; good taste and kindness made them pleasanter than sumptuosity would have done.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • And yet my life, to all appearance, my studies and my desires, belonged to my purely external vocation, [91] and to its external citizenlike relations; and by no means to mankind at large, either regarded in itself or in its educational needs.

    Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel Froebel, Friedrich, 1782-1852 1889

  • Because, to make a long story short, either I mean to be the chief official in my country in a peaceful, citizenlike, genuine way, or -- as God is above me -- I will no longer be king!

    Three Dramas Bj��rnstjerne Bj��rnson 1871

  • Alick and Shipley should make their way across the country to Sharpsburg with the two horses (this was the latter's own arrangement, and _he_, too, was unkind enough to object to my un-citizenlike appearance).

    Border and Bastille 1851

  • And yet my life, to all appearance, my studies and my desires, belonged to my purely external vocation, [91] and to its external citizenlike relations; and by no means to mankind at large, either regarded in itself or in its educational needs.

    Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel $c translated and annotated by Emilie Michaelis ... and H. Keatley Moore. Friedrich Fr��bel 1817

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